Yesterday’s change in blog themes and the topic of Verizon brought out some true comedians and I have to admit my favorite was LMVO (Laughing My Verizon Off)…there are a whole bunch more, all classics if you wander back and read the comments.  But today it’s time to get back to focusing on helping you [...]

I’ve said it every day, with each new profile.  If you can be with us at Skip’s Summer School, terrific, but regardless, each of the photographers I’m profiling should be in your network.  You need to follow their blogs, their teaching schedules, their tweets – anything that will help you grow, because every one of [...]

Lots of people can be outstanding photographers.  Lots of people can teach photography, work flow, technique and marketing, but how many can actually design and create tools to helps us all be more creative, while at the same time maintain a solid focus on humanity?  Kevin continues to do it all.   Nobody could have been prouder then [...]

Earlier in the week I started profiling this year’s Summer School instructors.  What started out as putting them up, three at a time, has really become a labor of love.   Three at a time was just too much information.   However, more important than Summer School, is the fact that these people are some of the movers [...]

In keeping with a common theme this week, I’m having some fun with quick profiles of this year’s Skip’s Summer School instructors.   In alphabetical order here comes Tony Corbell.  Whether you can join us or not, make it a point to follow these industry icons – they’ve all got something to say, something to teach and something everybody [...]

For those of you just “tuning in” this week – I’m profiling all fifteen instructors for this year’s Skip’s Summer School because it doesn’t matter whether you’re able to attend or not.  These photographers are leaders in our industry and you should be following each of them on Twitter, their blogs, websites and Facebook.  Each one is making [...]

Fortunately I can talk about icons alphabetically, because in all honesty, all fifteen instructors at Summer School this year are so strong, I have no idea where I’d start!  As I said yesterday…
Whether you’re headed to Skip’s Summer School or not, this year’s instructors are some of the very best in the industry.  If you can [...]

Whether you’re headed to Skip’s Summer School or not, this year’s instructors are some of the very best in the industry.  If you can join us in August, terrific, but if you can’t, you really should follow each of these fifteen photographic icons on Twitter, their blogs, websites and Facebook.  Each one is making a contribution to our industry [...]

I’m wearing a lot of different hats these days and loving every one of them.  Last night I was wearing my “Guest Editor” hat for PDN’s upcoming Focus on Portraits supplement.  My assignment was to do a short interview with Kirk Voclain about what makes great senior portraits.  He’s doing some amazing work with high [...]

Having fun with yesterday’s blog and thinking about how timid people are when it comes to approaching their icons , got me thinking about the qualities that make the “legends” we respect the most.   One key ingredient of so many past icons was longevity.  Don Blair, Monte Zucker, Avedon, Karsh, Scavullo, Penn – all iconic figures and [...]